git-clone

How to avoid providing absolute path of git repo while cloning?

Hello All, I am trying to host a git repository. I am now able to clone git repo on any machine within the network with: git clone [email protected]:/home/gituser/repositories/gitosis-admin.git But I need to give absolute path of the repo location. Is it possible to clone without specifying repo path? like for e.g. git clone g...

Git clone particular version of remote repository

Hi, I am very new to the world of git and version control. I cloned a remote git repository about a month ago. The remote repository has undergone many changes and has now become unstable. Now I need another copy of the repository, version identical to the one I cloned a month ago. How do I do this? Thank you. ...

git clone heroku ssh permission denied..

I just bought a new computer and I am trying to clone my heroku project on it. Here's what I've done so far. I didn't include the trace, but everything was saved in the right place, and the functions ran without errors. >> sudo ssh-keygen >> heroku keys:add >> sudo git clone -o heroku [email protected]:myapp.git Initialized empty Git rep...

GIT CRLF to LF - git parent repo on UNIX and clones on both windows and unix.

This question is somewhat similar to my other question, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3455772/make-sure-files-are-converted-crlf-into-lf-in-an-update-hook-is-there-a-performa So here is what am looking for with the below architecture. 1. MY parent repository (bare and data) is on a UNIX machine. 2. I can clone my repository in a UN...

error: git checkout-index: unable to create file

What I am trying to do is a git clone on windows, but the parent repository exists in a unix machine. Am cloning using ssh to get a clone from UNIX to windows, and I get this weird error. error: git checkout-index: unable to create file <filename> This happens during the checkout step of a git clone. Can anyone help me? ...

How to complete a git clone for a big project on an unstable connection?

I am trying to git clone the LibreOffice codebase, but at the moment I have an internet connection by mobile phone and it's just anything but stable. I can get the connection back any moment, but then the git clone process already stopped working, and no way to get it running again. Is there some way to have a more failure-resistant git ...

Why do I have problems pushing new branches to my Git repository?

As a followup to my question about unavailable branches after svn to git migration, I have a different problem: I'm unable to push new branches to my central Git repository. $ git clone ssh://server/opt/git/our_app.git $ cd our_app $ git branch my-test-branch $ git checkout my-test-branch $ echo test > test.txt $ git add test.txt $ git ...